Top 10 Most Costly Hospital Procedures

Here is a list of the top 10 most costly procedures and their average costs at hospitals in the United States, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.

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1.    Extracorporeal circulation auxiliary to open heart procedure (use of heart-lung machine) — $140,144
2.    Other organ transplant —$113,591
3.    Bone marrow transplant — $85,609
4.    Tracheostomy — $81,050
5.    Heart valve procedures — $49,482
6.    Kidney transplant — $47,865
7.    Other arterial bypass and shunt (besides heart, arms or legs) — $41,642
8.    Destruction retina lesion — $40,697
9.    Coronary artery bypass graft — $35,318
10.    Gastrectomy (removal of all or part of the stomach) — $33,266

Source: AHRQ HCUPnet.

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